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Obama: One year from Election Day, numbers good and bad

Obama: One year from Election Day, numbers good and bad

President Obama faces the voters a year from today, and right now he has reasons to be both concerned and confident. On the downside, there's an unemployment rate of 9% and approval ratings stuck in the 40s; on the other hand, Obama leads all the Republican challengers in most polling. Approval ratings in the 40s are a problem for any president seeking re-election.

 

Obama's fortunes improving: Reuters/Ipsos poll

Obama's fortunes improving: Reuters/Ipsos poll

President Barack Obama's fortunes are improving slightly, although he would face a tough struggle for re-election next year if Mitt Romney were the Republican nominee, a Reuters/Ipsos poll said on Friday.

Senh: Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are very close in another poll, too. Obama's foreign policy success has probably helped. I'm surprised that Romney's popularity has went up by staying relatively low profile.

 

NPR’s Michele Norris steps down, husband Broderick Johnson gets Obama job

National Public Radio’s Michele Norris will step away from her hosting duties as host of All Things Considered after her husband took a job with the Obama campaign.

 

Biden leaves door open for White House run in 2016

Biden leaves door open for White House run in 2016

Vice President Joe Biden left open the possibility on Sunday that he might run for the White House in 2016. Biden told CNN that his focus is on helping President Barack Obama get re-elected in 2012 but when pressed on the possibility of his own future run, he replied, "I'm not closing anything."

Senh: Will he get any support? He's seen as a weak link in the current administration.

 

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